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• catalog contributor b2356842.
• catalog created "1947.".
• catalog date "1947".
• catalog date "1947.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1947.".
• catalog description "1. Dedication to the general goals ; 2. The call to repentance for specific social evils ; 3. The support of definite next steps apart from partisan politics and apart from specific legislation ; 4. The church and political action ; 5. The development of pioneering Christian social movements within the church ; Objections to the participation of the church in social struggles ; 1. Is the church competent to speak on economic issues? ; 2. Should the church take sides when it's members are divided? ; 3. Should the church run the risk of compromising its ideals and its distinctive message by taking sides in a social conflict".
• catalog description "5. The limits of human imagination ; Summary of the roots of social evil ; The validity of social repentance -- II. The interdependence of individual and social salvation ; What is meant by salvation ; Three half-truths concerning the relation between individual and social salvation ; I. That individuals can rise above any combination of social circumstances ; 1. Poverty ; 2. Wealth ; 3. The concentration of power ; 4. War ; 5. Dominant expectancy of a profit-seeking society ; 6. Blinding effect of a depersonalized society ; II. That since individuals control institutions and systems it is enough to change individuals ; The method of the Oxford Groups ;".
• catalog description "I. Sin and social evil ; The fact of social sin ; The definition of sin ; Two case studies concerning the relation between sin and social evil ; I. sin and the causes of war ; 1. The sovereignty of the nation and the international anarchy ; 2. The sentiment of nationalism ; 3. The economic roots of war ; 4. The psychological attraction of war ; 5. National armaments and the military tradition ; II. Sin and resistance to economic change ; 1. The vastness and complexity of the economic order ; 2. resistance to personal loss of economic power and privilege ; 3. Sincere belief in inadequate economic and social theories ; 4. Premature satisfaction of the conscience ;".
• catalog description "III. That you can change society without changing individuals ; Social change both the condition and the fruit of individual salvation -- III. The relevance of Jesus for society ; The present confusion concerning the relation of Jesus to the problems of social change ; The content of the ethic of Jesus ; The difference between our age and the age of Jesus ; The apocalyptic teachings of Jesus ; The ethic of Jesus and social consequences ; The ethic of Jesus and compromise ;must we have a double standard of morality ; The social gospel and the teachings of Jesus ; Christology and social change".
• catalog description "IV. The church as an agent for social salvation ; The health and effectiveness of the church ; 1. The cleansing of the church of abuses ; 2. The church and modern knowledge ; 3. The social attitude of the church ; The church as a protection against the totalitarian state ; The church as a protection against war ; The church and the economic struggle ; Elements in the social strategy of the church ;".
• catalog description "V. The search for a social eschatology ; eschatologies and our need for them ; What remains of the expectation of progress? ; Its recent history ; Progress in what? ; Grounds for expectation of progress in moral behavior and human welfare ; 1. Increase in the possibilities of human welfare ; 2. Gains in public opinion and the public conscience ; 3. The cumulative influence of persons moved by faith and love ; 4. The self-defeating character of evil ; Dangers to progress in moral behavior and human welfare ; 1. Every advance accompanied by evil by-products or unsolved problems ; 2. The increasing possibilities for centralized power ; 3. The new powers of destruction in the hands of modern men ; 4. The increasing one-sidedness in the development of civilization ; Progress or no progress-our lives do have significant results ; The intrinsic work of the present ; The hope of a consummation beyond history".
• catalog description "VI. How God works in society ; The difficulty of discovering the work of God in society ; The central paradox ; How God is limited-God does not will social evil ; 1. God is limited by the logical structure of reality ; 2. God is limited by His own moral character ; 3. God is limited by the determinateness of His own creration ; 4. God is limited by human freedom ; Evidences of the work of God in society ; 1. The process of creation ; 2. The process of persuasion ; 3. The process of judgement ; 4. The process of healing ; The work of God and the responsibility of man.".
• catalog extent "xix, 220 p.".
• catalog issued "1947".
• catalog issued "1947.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York, London, C. Scribner's Sons, Ltd.,".
• catalog subject "Christian sociology.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Dedication to the general goals ; 2. The call to repentance for specific social evils ; 3. The support of definite next steps apart from partisan politics and apart from specific legislation ; 4. The church and political action ; 5. The development of pioneering Christian social movements within the church ; Objections to the participation of the church in social struggles ; 1. Is the church competent to speak on economic issues? ; 2. Should the church take sides when it's members are divided? ; 3. Should the church run the risk of compromising its ideals and its distinctive message by taking sides in a social conflict".
• catalog tableOfContents "5. The limits of human imagination ; Summary of the roots of social evil ; The validity of social repentance -- II. The interdependence of individual and social salvation ; What is meant by salvation ; Three half-truths concerning the relation between individual and social salvation ; I. That individuals can rise above any combination of social circumstances ; 1. Poverty ; 2. Wealth ; 3. The concentration of power ; 4. War ; 5. Dominant expectancy of a profit-seeking society ; 6. Blinding effect of a depersonalized society ; II. That since individuals control institutions and systems it is enough to change individuals ; The method of the Oxford Groups ;".
• catalog tableOfContents "I. Sin and social evil ; The fact of social sin ; The definition of sin ; Two case studies concerning the relation between sin and social evil ; I. sin and the causes of war ; 1. The sovereignty of the nation and the international anarchy ; 2. The sentiment of nationalism ; 3. The economic roots of war ; 4. The psychological attraction of war ; 5. National armaments and the military tradition ; II. Sin and resistance to economic change ; 1. The vastness and complexity of the economic order ; 2. resistance to personal loss of economic power and privilege ; 3. Sincere belief in inadequate economic and social theories ; 4. Premature satisfaction of the conscience ;".
• catalog tableOfContents "III. That you can change society without changing individuals ; Social change both the condition and the fruit of individual salvation -- III. The relevance of Jesus for society ; The present confusion concerning the relation of Jesus to the problems of social change ; The content of the ethic of Jesus ; The difference between our age and the age of Jesus ; The apocalyptic teachings of Jesus ; The ethic of Jesus and social consequences ; The ethic of Jesus and compromise ;must we have a double standard of morality ; The social gospel and the teachings of Jesus ; Christology and social change".
• catalog tableOfContents "IV. The church as an agent for social salvation ; The health and effectiveness of the church ; 1. The cleansing of the church of abuses ; 2. The church and modern knowledge ; 3. The social attitude of the church ; The church as a protection against the totalitarian state ; The church as a protection against war ; The church and the economic struggle ; Elements in the social strategy of the church ;".
• catalog tableOfContents "V. The search for a social eschatology ; eschatologies and our need for them ; What remains of the expectation of progress? ; Its recent history ; Progress in what? ; Grounds for expectation of progress in moral behavior and human welfare ; 1. Increase in the possibilities of human welfare ; 2. Gains in public opinion and the public conscience ; 3. The cumulative influence of persons moved by faith and love ; 4. The self-defeating character of evil ; Dangers to progress in moral behavior and human welfare ; 1. Every advance accompanied by evil by-products or unsolved problems ; 2. The increasing possibilities for centralized power ; 3. The new powers of destruction in the hands of modern men ; 4. The increasing one-sidedness in the development of civilization ; Progress or no progress-our lives do have significant results ; The intrinsic work of the present ; The hope of a consummation beyond history".
• catalog tableOfContents "VI. How God works in society ; The difficulty of discovering the work of God in society ; The central paradox ; How God is limited-God does not will social evil ; 1. God is limited by the logical structure of reality ; 2. God is limited by His own moral character ; 3. God is limited by the determinateness of His own creration ; 4. God is limited by human freedom ; Evidences of the work of God in society ; 1. The process of creation ; 2. The process of persuasion ; 3. The process of judgement ; 4. The process of healing ; The work of God and the responsibility of man.".
• catalog title "Social salvation; a religious approach to the problems of social change, by John C. Bennett.".
• catalog type "text".